The Alice Adventure, 2011 (Kate Findlay)
via symmetry
all the quilts should be large hadron collider quilts.
3 months ago
March 3, 2012
The Franco-Swiss border runs through the CERN campus and building 31 is literally just a few feet into France. However, there is no explicit border within CERN and the main entrance is in Switzerland, so the situation of which country it was invented in is actually quite a tricky one. The current commemorative plaque, which is outside a row of offices where people other than Tim Berners-Lee worked on the web, is in Switzerland. To add to the confusion, in case Tim thought of the web at home, his home was in France but he temporarily moved to rented accommodation in Switzerland, just around the time the web was developed. So although, strictly speaking, France is the birthplace of the web it would be fair to say that it happened in building 31 at CERN but not in any particular country! How delightfully appropriate for an invention which breaks down physical borders.
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David Galbraith (kottke)
the cern & the cern
4 months ago
January 26, 2012
CERN’s Atlas Detector in Lego (Sascha Mehlhause)
via Discovery News
some of the challenges mirrored those faced in the construction of the actual LHC: “For example, the outer magnets in both structures are much heavier than some internal pieces, yet they need to support themselves without breaking.”
6 months ago
December 3, 2011
colisión de partículas (by Ricardo Hurtubia)
particle collision display in the visitors’ center, cern
1 year ago
February 3, 2011
Voyage to the Heart of Matter - a popup book about CERN
above: a reconstruction of the ATLAS detector
via Ars Technica
fitting that the popup book is as complex as the LHC
2 years ago
June 2, 2010
As the sun rises, you can tell that we here at CERN have failed yet again to end the world. We apologise for the inconvenience.
— naturalnumber (via fuckyeahphysics)
2 years ago
March 31, 2010
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Scientists aim for musical impact
excerpted:
The official choir of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (better known by its French acronym Cern) is to record a song dedicated to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The LHC is the vast physics experiment built in a 27km-long underground tunnel, which runs in a circle under the French-Swiss border.
The ditty has been set to the tune of the Hippopotamus song by Flanders and Swann and its chorus celebrates the Higgs boson - a sub-atomic particle that the LHC is designed to detect:
“Higgs, glorious Higgs,” the tune goes, “the theory told them these thingamijigs, were so fundamental.”
2 years ago
December 26, 2009
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